The Starry Night
From $289
Collection
Night scenes in oil
Starry nights, café terraces, rivers at dusk — the paintings that make a room feel lit from inside.
A night painting is the cheapest lighting upgrade in a room. It does something no lamp does: it gives the eye a source of light that is painted rather than switched on, and it keeps a dark corner from reading as empty.
The risk is a muddy reproduction. Night scenes are where cheap prints fail first — the blues go to sludge and the stars become white dots — because a printer cannot hold detail in the darks. An oil painter solves it the way the original painter did: a warm ground under a cool sky, so the darkness has colour inside it.
These seven are the night compositions our artists paint most. The Starry Night and Café Terrace at Night are the two Van Goghs almost everybody can picture from memory; Monet's two Thames and Venice pictures are the quieter choice for a room that is already busy.
How to size a painting in this collection
Night pictures tolerate size better than most subjects: they are mostly sky, and sky scales. If you have a tall narrow wall, The Starry Night can be made vertical-leaning without losing the composition, because the cypress already carries the height.
Hang a night painting where you will see it in the evening rather than at noon — a hallway, a stairwell, the wall opposite the bed. In daylight the darks are just dark; at night, under a warm bulb, the whole picture lifts.
Where to go next
Every painting in this collection is made to order and can be produced in a size that is not listed. Prices on each page are the published starting price for the smallest canvas; larger sizes step up on the same ladder, so there is no quote to wait for.
Questions
Questions about this collection
It will look like a night painting in daylight, which is normal. What we avoid is a flat black: the sky in a good reproduction keeps a blue that reads even in a bright room, because the painter builds it over a warm ground instead of painting darkness straight onto white canvas.
Yes, up to the size of the wall, with the proportions kept. Beyond about twice the original size the brushwork has to be scaled with it — the strokes get larger, not more numerous — and that is a decision the painter makes, so tell us the wall before you order.
No glass, ever, on an oil. A matte varnish is applied before dispatch; it protects the surface and keeps reflections down, which matters more than usual on a dark canvas.
Wall measured, painting chosen?
Send the wall dimensions and the piece you have in mind. We will confirm the size that keeps the composition intact and the date we can actually keep.